Turkish & Modern Greek Studies with a year abroad

Students take courses at both King's College London and the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS). King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional course will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.

All first year students are required to take the following core courses:

• Turkish Language AND/OR Modern Greek Language

First year students choose from a range of optional modules, which would typically include options such as:

King's courses

• The Emergence & Development of Modern Greece
• Reading modern poetry comparatively (Greek/English)
• From Late Antiquity to Byzantium
• Ours once more: perceptions of the past in the Greek world

SOAS courses

• Intensive Turkish Language
• Intermediate Modern Turkish Language
• Advanced Modern Turkish Language
• Ottoman Turkish Language
• Early Ottoman Literature
• Classical Ottoman Literature
• Literature of the Tanzimat & the Late 19th- Century
• Twentieth-century Turkish Literature I
• Twentieth-century Turkish Literature II
• Turkish Folk Literature
• Advanced Turkish/English/Turkish Translation
• History & Development of the Turkish Language
• Independent Study Project in Turkish Literature
• Aspects of Turkish Culture
• Reform, Resistance & Revolution: the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909
• The Middle East 1250-1800
• Emergence of the Ottoman State to 1481

All second year students are required to take the following core courses:

• Turkish Language AND/OR Modern Greek Language

Second year students choose from a range of optional modules, which would typically include options such as:

King's courses

• Modern Greek Language
• The novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
• Modernity and the nation in Greek fiction since 1922
• Greek society and politics, 1922-1950
• Language varieties and sociolinguistics
• Byzantine saints
• History of the Byzantine Empire I (641-867): From Survival to Revival
• History of the Byzantine Empire II (867-1055): The Apogee
• History of the Byzantine empire III (1055-1261): Challenge and renewal
• History of the Byzantine empire IV (1261-1453): Fragmentation and Fall

SOAS courses

• See year one options listed above

The third year is normally spent abroad, divided equally between Greece or Cyprus and Turkey, at one of our partner universities.

Final year students choose from a range of optional modules, which would typically include options such as:

King's courses

• Modern Greek Language
• Dissertation
• War in Greek poetry 1897-1981
• Modernity and tradition in Greece (19th-20th centuries)
• Text and discourse analysis
• Constantine and his Historians
• Describing Constantinople
• Medicine and society in the ancient world
• Medicine and society in the medieval world

SOAS courses

• See year one options listed above